Movie Mike sits down with Josh Holloway. He is best known for starring as “Sawyer” on LOST and recently appeared on Yellowstone. They talk about his new independent Western, Flint, where Josh plays James Kettleman who is a hardened, wealthy East Coast businessman who learns he is dying and returns to the frontier. Mike and Josh talk about what it was like going to the movies when he was a kid, how he got into acting, his first big acting break with Lost, doing his own stunts on Flint and how he feels about Lost 22 years later. In the Movie Review, Mike gives thoughts on Heart of the Beast starring Brad Pitt. He plays a Special Forces officer who survived a plane crash with his combat dog…then find themselves stranded in the Alaskan wilderness. Mike talks about the amazing performance from the dog, why they pay Brad Pitt the big bucks, and where it ranks in his favorite Brad Pitt movies of all-time. In the Trailer Park, Mike talks about one of his most anticipated movies of the year: Godzilla Minus Zero. Set in 1949, the Shikishima family confronts a fresh catastrophe two years after surviving their previous ordeal with the legendary monster.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm
your host Movie Mike. This is cool because I get
to sit down with Josh Holloway who played Sawyer on
Lost which is one of my favorite TV shows of
all time. He has a new movie called Flint that
actually has ties back to Lost. 20 years in the
making I would say. So we'll get into that interview.
(00:20):
In the movie review I'll be talking about Heart of
the Beast starring Brad Pitt. Is it the best Brad
Pitt movie of all time? And in the trailer park
We'll talk about one of my most anticipated movies in
IMAX coming out later this year, Godzilla Minus Zero, that
now has an R rating and I am ready to
go and watch this movie immediately. I would go right
now if I could. So thank you for being here.
(00:42):
Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie Crew, basically anybody who subscribed to this podcast.
Shout out to you. Thank you. And now, let's talk movies.
From the Dice Trail Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. Josh Holloway, you would probably know him best
as Sawyer on Lost, which is one of my favorite
(01:02):
shows of all time. Not just a top ten show,
but a top five show of my lifetime. I feel
like I went to the island myself. Some people have
issues with the ending of that show. I loved every
aspect of Lost and thought he was fantastic in it.
He was also recently on Yellowstone. He was in the J.J.
Abrams series Duster on HBO Max. He's also been in
(01:24):
projects like Sabotage, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. But we are
here to talk about his new movie called Flint. which
is a movie 20 years in the making. Josh plays
James Kettleman, who is a hardened, wealthy East Coast businessman
who learns that he is dying. So he returns back
to the frontier. He adopts the name of the killer
(01:45):
who raised him, Flint, who in the movie is played
by Charles Esten, which if you watch Nashville, you know
Charles Esten, or if like me, you watch Whose Line
Is It Anyway back in the day, you would know
him from that too. He's also in Outer Banks, which
just wrapped up on Netflix. It is a independent Western,
and I think We don't really get a whole lot
of these movies right now. So I want to talk
to Josh about independent filmmaking, him doing his own stunts
(02:08):
in the movie. And of course, we got to talk
about Lost. Also cool because I got to do this
on location during the Nashville Film Festival here in town.
And I got to go to my local Regal Theater,
the same theater I go to all the time to
watch all the movies I tell you about. And we're
sitting in the front row on those big comfy recliners
as we do this interview. So here is my conversation
(02:29):
with Josh Holloway.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Josh, how did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I grew up in the 70s, bro. They didn't have
chairs like this.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What was a movie theater like?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The first theater you went to, what was it like?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, it was the Dollar Theater. Actually, the first one
I really remember was Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You went to Star Wars?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I went to Star Wars when Star Wars was in
the theaters. I was like seven years old. Three brothers,
or two brothers at the time. And we walked in there.
not knowing anything about it, and walked out with our
jaws on the ground. Like, that was a cinematic experience. Like, unforgettable.
(03:09):
Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How did that change your trajectory? Did you watch Star
Wars and think, I want to do that? Or did
you just see that and think, like, that was awesome?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, I wanted to be Luke Skywalker and Han Solo
and all of them. Are you kidding me? But not
for real. I just thought... You know, like a normal child. No,
did I want to be an actor at that point?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But did I want to be Luke Skywalker? Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Everybody wanted to be Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So when did it start for you? Because I know
you got started in modeling, but when did you decide,
I want.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To be an actor?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Strangely, I kind of just fell through the cracks. I
was a model for years, and then I had opened
a development company in Georgia, so we were building houses.
But I was living in New York, so it was
all on the phone and fax. Remember fax?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't remember fact. I know it from movies.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Anyway, that was no fun because it was just all
paperwork and phone. And then I opened a restaurant in
Los Angeles. It was huge for a year and crashed
like everything in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Restaurant's tough business.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And then I was thinking, well, why not try acting?
I've always wanted to do it and just been afraid
to try it. So I went to this four-day intensive.
And it was with this acting coach named Corey Allen,
who happened to be Buzz in Rebel Without a Cause,
opposite James Dean. He was the main antagonist in Rebel
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Without a Cause.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What was your first big yes? Lost. Lost. That's a
big yes.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That was the big one. My first time on film
was with Alicia Silverstone in the Cryin' video.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That was the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You were like a criminal in that arrest.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Sold her back. Terrible. That was like foreshadowing of all
my characters. You know, flirt with a girl, con them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But that, and then I did Walker, Texas Ranger with Chuck,
with the original Chuck Norris. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you're on loss, and I think that's a good
segue into this, because- The movie, you actually bought the
movie rights to Flint when you were working on Lost, right?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I didn't buy the rights. I approached Bo L'Amour,
and we talked about it, and he was like, not yet.
You're not old enough. I was like, bro, gray my beard.
You know, we can make it work. And so we
started our relationship then.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
20 years ago. 20 years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And we started a development process then. And then I
had another series that took me out of country and
it just kind of went away. And then we came
back to it. So I've been touching base with Mo,
I mean, Bo L'Amour for 20 years. And then finally
he called me where he's like, I have a writer.
(06:12):
I want to do this. I trust in it. And
then I helped him get his father's entire project, a
library represented through UTA. So we put things in motion.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So tell me about this book because you read this book.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yes. And you were so just enamored with this book
that you decided like, I need to make this, I
need to be a part of this. What was it
about this book that has you here right now about
a walk into the premiere?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've read a lot of books, read a lot of
Westerns and Louis L'Amour is like these quickies that you
can just knock Three days and you're like, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm not a huge reader. I'm reading this right now
because I watched the movie. I love it. I'm like,
I got to read the book.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It's amazing. And he has such a library. So it
was just something that read it stuck with me. Like,
this is a movie. It writes itself. And we really
attempted to do this true to the book in the Southwest,
in the Malapas. That's a national park. You can't get
to without helicopters.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Can you get to the park without?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, that part where the hideout was.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You're not allowed to do that. So we had to
pivot and adapt the story to Montana.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Which looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Which is amazing and beautiful, but luckily our writers and
everyone were agile enough to do that, and Bo agreed. Yes,
it's a different setting, but we kept as true to
the story as we could. So that's why it's in Monday. Montana.
We couldn't get there. They wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But it looks so good.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Like I'm watching just the, even the opening scene, like
the train scene, like pulling in on that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It looks fantastic.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But I imagine that has to be a beast to film,
to go somewhere like Montana, be out in the wilderness.
But what I love about it is like you feel
the setting in it. So what was the filming process
being out there?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It was the best job I ever had. Are you
kidding me? It's Montana. Like you said, I mean, everywhere
you look, is a picture in cinematics. So just the
scale of the scenery was a character in itself. And
the crew were incredible. They were all Montana, like roll
up your sleeves, let's do this for the fun of it.
(08:30):
And we called it the Flint Sprint. We were like
25 days of real independent movie filming, like indie, but
with that spirit. So it was, Truly one of the
most magical experiences I've had in filmmaking. Everyone was in
it for the love of doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Do you feel like independent filmmaking is kind of having
a moment right now? Where it's kind of cool again.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's been, it's had a moment a long time since Sundance.
It's just those moments have changed drastically. So yes, kind
of the definition of more of a true independent is back.
Not the multi-million dollar.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That looks like an independent, but it's like not really
an independent.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Not really an independent, backed by lots of money. The
true ones are coming back, you know, that are really
driven by the creatives and the artistic process without a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you feel like your experience in those 20 years
waiting for this movie to be made has allowed you
to play Flint better? Like if you would have made
it 20 years ago, do you think it would have
been a much different movie? Do you kind of like, Okay,
it did take a long time, but it feels like
this was when it was right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And life, as long as you're living true to yourself,
life redirects you and you find that things work the
way they're supposed to. So, yes, I was definitely not ready.
And now I've had children. Now I've gone through an
entire career. I've become the age that this character was
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supposed to be. And it has a different weight.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You did a lot of your own stunts in the movie.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
How demanding is that physically? Like, how do you have
to prepare for that?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You stay prepared. You just do it. You just do it. Yes.
But it was so much fun, actually. What I did
with this one, because it's a Western, I came here
two weeks earlier. I went to kind of what I
call cowboy camp. And I grew up riding my whole
life and kind of growing up being a cowboy. But
(10:38):
to actually learn the skills was so much fun and tough.
I had saddle sores, like couldn't, could barely walk. you're
learning these big weapons. First time I cocked that big rifle,
I broke my pinky. And they're like, use all your fingers,
not just your pinky. I'm like, oh, you know, you
(10:59):
have to learn these ancient weapons. They're different than the modern.
So that was a lot of fun and such a journey.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What's the most useful skill you've learned that you had
maybe learned for a role and maybe now you like
use it in everyday life or it's just like, wow,
I can't believe I learned that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is it like dealing with weapons? Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So many. Actually, the latest one, and I can't use
it anymore. I'm so mad. My series Duster on HBO was,
I was a wheel man for the mafia, so I
went to stunt school. So I can parallel park at
full speed. I can put the license plate right in
the camera. Oh, I'm terrible at parallel parking. I can
(11:40):
do all of that, like all those crazy stunts you see.
I can do all those slings. It's bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I feel like that's the best skill to learn. That's
the best skill.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
At Pondidoo.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lost this week, 22 years ago it premiered. I'm sure
you've been tagged in stuff like crazy. When you see
all that stuff popping up in your feed, what's the
first thing that comes to your mind? Like, is it
a great memory?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Is it just like.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It's like unbelievable. Really? People still are watching this. It
still has legs. It's shocking, but it's... I feel proud
of it. When it comes up, I'm still proud of it.
I've always been proud of it, but it's not something
I think about all the time, and I don't tag
anything because I'm not on it. My wife does all
(12:27):
the social media stuff. She helps me. I'm just not
in the tech world. So I hear about this from
you guys and my wife.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh, you know these things are going on. Still debating
the finale, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I'm like, really? So I'm a little removed from that,
but it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Josh, this has been great.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All the best.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Good luck with the film.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Thank you. Appreciate it, brother.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I also wanted to talk about this list of the
highest grossing actors in the world because as of a
couple of weeks ago, Tom Holland has now earned his
spot at the top being the highest grossing actor of
all time. Obviously, a big contribution to that has been
Spider-Man Brand New Day this year. Also, The Odyssey. Also,
it didn't really contribute to this, but him getting married
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to Zendaya and them going out in public together. Seeing
Zendaya and Tom Holland at the Emmys together, sitting at
a table, him there cheering her on, even though I
wish he would have won. But just seeing them two
out in public, feeling like a real couple, which to
me are like that really great Hollywood couple. We don't
really have those anymore that have a little bit of
mystery involved. They're not on social media a whole lot,
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but he is somebody that I believe not only is
a good person on screen, but off screen. So I
love it that he is at number one. Let's take
a look at this entire list, which obviously if he
is at number one, because I don't even think he's
one of the most famous people in the world. Spider-Man,
the character is worldwide known, but I think to my mom,
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she probably couldn't tell you Tom Holland's name. she would
maybe recognize him as Spider-Man. So I think the fact
that he is number one is quite an accomplishment because
I also don't think he is at that level where
it is guaranteed he's going to have a successful career.
Although I really hope that for him because I enjoy
his work so much. But I think because he comes
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from a superhero background where the Spider-Man brand is bigger
than he is as an actor. Again, I love him.
And I know this sounds like I'm kind of crapping
on his career. That's not what I'm trying to say here.
I just think the unfortunate result of becoming famous from
playing a superhero, and we're going to see that all
throughout this list, is that that superhero is always going
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to be a bigger star than you, unfortunately. And I
think the thing with Tom Holland and a lot of
these actors is they almost have to work twice as
hard because even though they have all the money here,
not that they make as much money that all these
earn at the box office and they have that all
in their bank account, but I think they have to
work twice as hard Because they have all this success
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from these movies. But it's so hard for them just
to go do a movie that's not a Captain America.
That's not a Spider-Man. Because people just see them and
they want to see their favorite superheroes. And it's hard.
Once you have that character associated with that actor that
you love so much. You love Spider-Man so much. Sometimes
it is hard. to see them in any other roles
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and be excited about those other roles. That's why we
see Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans continue to come back
to the MCU because that's where the good payday is
and that's where all the love and admiration is. But
I think Tom Holland is one that can do it
because he did a really good job in the Odyssey.
I feel like he has those performances in him, even
going back to some of his early departures from the MCU,
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like Devil All the Time that starred another superhero, Robert
Pattinson as Batman. I am really rooting for him. And
I also feel like him being married to Zendaya, who
has such a vast and large body of work that
is all so different. If he has somebody like her
on his side that can help navigate through picking those
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right roles and being his sounding board, I also think
he has a better chance than anybody else on this list.
So getting into the top 10 highest grossing actors of
all time in the world. This is based on the
worldwide box office. And number 10 is Chris Evans, who
has a total box office earnings of $ 11. 49 billion. This
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is largely from the MCU. So Captain America, Avengers, and
Knives Out are listed as his top earning movies. Chris
Evans is one of those actors that I've already mentioned here.
It has been very hard for him to branch out
from the Captain America role. I think outside of the MCU, post-Endgame,
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my favorite Chris Evans movie has been Materialists. Him and
Dakota Johnson, I think that was a perfect role for him.
I really wish he would just go full rom-com guy.
I think he works really well in that genre. He's
done movies like The Gray Man with Ryan Gosling where...
He's kind of been put into this action star where
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I don't really fully see that in him. If he's
not Captain America, maybe just hasn't found the right action world.
He's also in a movie coming out on Netflix pretty
soon called Sacrifice with him and Anya Taylor-Joy. That actually
looks pretty good. So I think he just needs that one,
not even just one big hit, but he needs one
big hit franchise. And I think he would be okay.
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But again, all these people are fine. They have millions
and millions of dollars. Because the thing I always think,
if you have a hit as a superhero, you could
go and do Comic-Cons for the rest of your life.
I know people who are in one minor nerdy movie
in the 80s and have had a career of doing
Comic-Cons and signing autographs and Funko Pops. There's nothing wrong
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with that. I can respect that. I wish I was
in some random 90s movie and could have written off
that for my entire life. or at least like have
it as my side hustle for the rest of my life.
But at number 10, we have Chris Evans. And number
nine is Vin Diesel with a box office earnings of
$ 12. 04 billion. This comes from Fast and the Furious, that
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entire franchise, but he's also in the MCU because he
is Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, where he goes
in and basically just says, I am Groot several different ways.
And that's how he gets his money. He gets credit
for all those movies starring in them. And then it
wasn't until Guardians of the Galaxy 3 where he actually
had a full line. But Vin Diesel, ironically, puts out
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some really good voice work where he has to work
very little. Because before that, him in the Iron Giant,
the voice of the giant, where that giant doesn't say
a whole lot, but that's Vin Diesel. So somehow he
has cornered the market on, I'm going to be a
voice actor, but only... voicing characters who have very little
to say. Vin Diesel, man, where is that next Fast
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and the Furious movie? He's been teasing us now for
like three years. We were supposed to get that right
after the last one. Please, Vin Diesel, get this movie
out now. I need to go experience it. Vin Diesel
is at number nine. At number eight is Chris Hemsworth
with a total of $ 12. 19 billion. This is straight MCU.
His top movies... Listed here are Thor, Avengers, and Extraction,
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which is a Netflix movie. He is somebody who, he
looks like an action star. Extraction is a solid action movie,
but it doesn't really move the needle on me being
more of a Chris Hemsworth fan. But that's kind of
his franchise because he also did Extraction 2 in 2023.
And I don't really remember what happened in that one.
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Extraction 1 I have a pretty good memory of because
when that came out in 2021. That felt like a
little bit of a moment. The third act in that movie,
that final scene, that was cool. But Extraction 2, kind
of forgettable. And he is going to be in Extraction 3,
which is currently in development at Netflix. The Netflix movie
of his that I thought was going to be his, okay,
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I can play a different character. I thought that was
going to be Spider-Head, which came out in 2022. where
he played a scientist in this high-tech prison. It also
starred Miles Teller. That movie was really good for about
20 minutes, and then it kind of lost me. Aside
from the premise of that movie, it was pretty forgettable.
And then I had that same feeling when Chris Hemsworth
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was in Furiosa, which was the Mad Max prequel movie,
where he looked insane in the trailer, and his character
with his hair, the facial kind of augmentation that made
him look a little bit different. I thought his performance
was pretty limited in that movie. So I am still
waiting to see a different side of Chris Hemsworth that
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really sticks. But at number eight, you have Chris Hemsworth.
At number seven, quite honestly, I thought this guy would
be higher. But it's Tom Cruise with $ 13. 36 billion. His
highest earning movies have been Mission Impossible. That's an entire franchise, obviously.
The Top Gun movies and War of the Worlds. Man,
(21:21):
War of the Worlds really changed my life when that
movie first came out. Where that was prime, me being
fascinated by aliens. Also in the 2000s, any End of
the World style movie just hit a little bit different.
Steven Spielberg, that's when he was still doing good alien movies.
Now the question is, will Tom Cruise add to that
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total with Digger coming out this weekend?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Man... I kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Feel like this movie is going to flop. I think
this will be the movie I review next week. But
based on the trailer, based on my feeling of the
director and his body of work, I just don't really
see audiences resonating with this story enough to want to
go pay money to see it in theaters. Every time
I see the trailer, I think it looks unfinished. The
(22:09):
color grading just looks off to me. It looks like
they went straight.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Film on camera. Put that out in theaters. They didn't
run that through any kind of color processing. And I
know that's the style. But to me, the actual cinematography
in that trailer looks crazy. It looks big, wacky, elaborate.
But the colors just look off to me where it
feels like something that just looks like test footage. And
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I just don't think Tom Cruise as this really elaborate
character is going to work. And I know he's done
characters like this before. I think this is going to
be one of those movies. That was very fun for
him to do. He wanted to do this collaboration. But
it's been really hard for me to be excited about Digger.
Even seeing the popcorn bucket that looks kind of cool.
(22:55):
I just don't think this is going to go in
the direction that he wants it to go. And then
with the last Mission Impossible movie just not really delivering
at the box office. That entire franchise being kind of
shipped off on kind of a low note. I hope
that at some point Tom Cruise just goes back to
doing straight-up dramas, or maybe even a little bit of rom-com.
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But I do commend him for being somebody really pushing
everybody to go back to the theater. I think that's
why he does a big, loud movie like Digger. I'm
just not that excited about it. But at number seven,
you have Tom Cruise. I think after this, pretty much
everybody is some superhero. Because at number six is Robert
Downey Jr. with $ 14. 32 billion dollars. Iron Man, Avengers. They
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also have Sherlock Holmes and Oppenheimer listed as his key projects.
Give Robert Downey Jr. all the money. He is only
going to rise on this list because he has Doomsday
coming out later this year. He's also going to be
in Secret Worlds. So he's going back into the well.
If anybody on this list has the best chance of
earning their way to the top, it has to be
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Robert Downey Jr. I think him being down there at
number six... That's low for him. And that's just because
he's been out of the MCU game since 2019. But
just wait for it. With these two movies that could
end up being two of the highest grossing movies of
all time, Doomsday is going to get up there on
that list because if Brand New Day crushed it as
much as it did this year, Avengers Doomsday is going
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to go even harder. So he has the chance of
beating out everybody listed before him because at number five
is Samuel L. Jackson's at $ 14. 61 billion. So he's only
like 0.3 away from Sam Jackson. And Sam Jackson, kind
of unfairly, as Nick Fury, just isn't around anymore. They
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kind of did him dirty in this phase of the MCU,
but his key projects are the Avengers. He's also in
Star Wars, which people forget about that. He fought for
that purple lightsaber. George Lucas gave that thing to him.
He is also in Pixar's The Incredible. It's listed as
some of his most profitable movies. movies but he could
go down in this list because he's not in the
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mcu anymore they could bring him back but man after
secret invasion that left such a bad taste in my
mouth so i can see him going down on this
list then at number four you have chris pratt at
15.16 billion dollars jurassic world is listed for him before
the mcu but then you have the avengers movies you
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have guardians He is also the voice of Mario in
the Super Mario Brothers movies, which is another billion dollar franchise.
They could honestly keep making those movies until the end
of time. That could be a next MCU level franchise
because you have your main, your tent poles, you have
your Super Mario movies. But then they could do, obviously
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they're doing not an animation, but you have the Zelda
movie inside of that same world. but they could do
a Kirby movie, they could do a Super Smash Brothers movie,
Donkey Kong, all these opportunities for Mario to make cameos
all throughout the Nintendo world. So, Chris Pratt is looking
pretty good at number four. He could quite possibly at
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least hop up into top three if the next Mario
movie is also a billion dollar movie, which the first
two have been. At number three, you have Scarlett Johansson
at $ 15. 4 billion dollars. Most of her money comes from
the MCU, but also Jurassic World Rebirth, which still made
a lot of money, even though, man, I hope they
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never make another Jurassic World movie. Like, just kill that franchise.
It is good. We don't need to explore that world anymore.
It's been beaten to death. Let's start fresh. Let's make
more movies like The End of Oak Street, where you
also have dinosaurs, but it's just not the Jurassic Park format.
Or just go straight R. Just go straight R Jurassic
Park movie. That is going to be the only way
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you get me excited about that franchise again, but that's
never going to happen because it's not going to translate
to a family film. It's not going to do well internationally,
but I think I'm a little bit over the formula.
I say that now, but if they put out another
one next summer, I'd probably go watch it. But Scarlett
Johansson at number three, that's pretty good for her because
she is somebody who doesn't need to do big Hollywood
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summer blockbuster movies. She can just go do a bunch
of indie darlings. She could go do another Wes Anderson movie.
She is good on money. Has been working her entire
life since she was a kid. She could just go
off of Colin Jost and leave the spotlight and never
work again. That is the only reason I say that
she could go down on this list. But she is
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also somebody who is very driven and I think still
loves being a part of big franchises. So... I think
she will go down only because I think Chris Pratt
and Robert Downey Jr. are going to bump up on
this list. At number two, who was number one for
the longest amount of time, Zoe Zaldana at $ 15. 47 billion.
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It was always crazy to me that she was not
only in the MCU as Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy.
She was in Star Trek. She was also in Avatar.
That is like a box office cheat code. To be
in the Avatar franchise, where I feel like that's the
best fame for her, because she gets the paycheck, but
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since she's all blue, she doesn't get all the worldwide harassment.
I wonder how that feels as an actor. Because there
are some people not only in Avatar, but also in
the MCU, like Nebula. That's Karen Gillan, who is also
in the Jumanji franchise. And when you see her in Jumanji,
I wonder what it's like for them to be characters
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that are beloved by people. But when they go out
in public, they look nothing like them. So people aren't
stopping them for selfies. They're not asking for their autograph.
And sometimes people do not connect the two. I would
find that kind of nice because you get the money,
which is a great part of it. You get the fulfillment.
You get the credit. You get the opportunities that come
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from that big role. but you don't get the downside
that a bunch of people say is the worst part
of fame. But Zoey has been at number one for
so long because the Avatar movies just constantly dominate, do
really well internationally. But now at number one is Tom
Holland at $ 15. 55 billion. I think he can also stay
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at number one for a pretty good amount of time
because although it's not fully confirmed, he has to be
in the next two Avengers movies. in some capacity and
with the way the last Spider-Man movie ended. I think
we at least need another Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland
giving him five total which would be insane but I
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think that is another at least two billion dollar movie
to get him up to $ 17 billion. So that is
the list. I'll come back and give my spoiler-free review
of Heart of the Beast. People are calling Heart of
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the Beast the best Brad Pitt movie of all time.
And to those people, I say, well, exactly how many
Brad Pitt movies have you seen? Because he is a
fantastic actor. I would say his top five, at least
to me, My personal top five of his are impenetrable.
So if I was really fighting for Heart of the Beast,
maybe I could put it in the top 10 because
it has a lot of things that people love, myself included,
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support for the military, dogs, and Brad Pitt in his 60s.
Those three things together are a great recipe for a
fun time at the movies. It is also just over
an hour and a half, which I feel like, oh,
I've been loving this sweet spot in movies right now.
Not because I believe that movies need to be shorter,
The movie demands a two-hour runtime and keeps my attention.
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I am fine with that. But with a story like
Heart of the Beast that is all about Brad Pitt
leaving the military, just wanting to give his dog Odin
a comfortable retirement. He just wants to go to Alaska,
just him and Odin. They fly in, they land, they
set up a camp, they go hunting. He is trying
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to find these birds and check them off on his list,
just trying to have peace and play fetch with Odin.
give him scratches, do all the things that a dog
deserves after witnessing some of the most disgusting things in humanity,
also sometimes some of the most beautiful things, but he
has been through a lot. And you learn a lot
about Odin and how at night he suffers from PTSD.
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He has these nightmares where he thinks he is back
at war. He starts barking like somebody's about to attack them,
and Brad Pitt is there to calm him down. So
they are best friends, have been best friends for so long,
and now deserve They deserve retirement, and they go to
Alaska to just have this bonding trip together and get
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away from everybody. There is also very little supporting cast
in this movie. You have basically Brad Pitt and Odin,
who in the movie is played by a real-life retired
search-and-rescue dog named Uber, which both of those are great names.
Odin sounds very powerful, very heroic, but Uber is also
a great dog name, but in the movie is played
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by Uber, who... I would say Brad Pitt gives a
great performance in Heart of the Beast, but Uber the
Dog deserves an Oscar. He puts to shame the dog
from A Good Boy last year, which everybody was saying
that that dog needed to win an Oscar. No, Uber
the Dog from Heart of the Beast deserves to win
an Oscar. He better be there at the award show,
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and they better give him some treats and have him
run up on stage and accept his award because he
outperformed Brad Pitt in this movie where... Brad Pitt was good,
but Brad Pitt kind of gives you Brad Pitt. You
know what you pay for when you go see a
Brad Pitt movie. At this point in his career, he
is very charismatic. He is very good looking, has kind
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of this guarded personality, but then is very charming to people.
There's very little supporting cast aside from J.K. Simmons, who
really has a brief scene with Brad Pitt, and he's
really just there to explain to the audience their backstory, which...
The movie jumps right into their Alaska trip, and then
you learn all about their past in war. But they
put J.K. Simmons in there as somebody to come in
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for Brad Pitt to talk to and basically tell the
audience his entire past. So for me, I felt his
character was more for mechanics to let everybody in on
what was going on and not leave a whole lot
of people confused. But it's pretty much just Brad Pitt
and Uber throughout the entire movie. So I would say
it is not a top 10 Brad Pitt movie. but
probably one of the best dog movies I have ever
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seen because I cared way more for Odin than I
did Brad Pitt's character. Even though Brad Pitt's character has
also been through a lot, it's just one battle after another.
As the plot says, he has a heart attack while
flying the plane. Him and Odin go down and then
they are stranded in the wilderness. All these crazy animals
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around them that could kill them, bears and all the things,
all the elements. And they have to walk over 50
miles to a road to try and find somebody to
rescue them. So that is the story of this movie.
No backstory whatsoever. You just hop right in. And I
feel like your mom, your grandpa, somebody in the theater
did bring a younger kid. I would say maybe seven
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or eight years old. I thought that was a little
bit too young because you do have blood injuries that
even to me were a little bit, So even though
the movie is PG-13, because of the cute dog and
how loyal this dog is, I could see maybe bringing
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a younger kid under 13. But gosh, even for me,
some of those things were hard for me to stomach.
This story shows you the realities of war and sometimes
the things that we don't talk about and the things
that we don't realize that men and women go through.
But in this case, animals go through for our freedom
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and to do these things that we have no idea about.
So I think for me, that helped me understand how
these dogs, even though they are animals, they are so
much smarter than you think. I think this dog is
probably smarter than me, way more courageous than I am.
But we think, oh, they're a dog. They're fine. They
get back for more. And you don't even think about
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what they have seen affecting them. It's heavy stuff. But
I think sometimes we don't think about dogs the same
way we think about our men and women who go
over there and fight, which I have the utmost respect for.
But I think this movie shined a light on the dogs,
the canines that go over there and rescue a lot
of those men and women and do really heroic things
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and then come back and are just expected to be
dogs and not freak out at night. So I think
out of all things that I took away from this movie,
it left me with a valuable lesson. of how smart
and how valuable and how much worth all of these
dogs have. So again, give this dog an Oscar, please.
Why I would say this isn't a top 10 Brad
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Pitt movie is because overall the story is pretty simple.
There's really nothing novel about this story. And I love
nature movies. And maybe for the first 10 minutes of
this film, it romanticized that idea of going out in
the middle of nowhere, Being somewhere where there's no Wi-Fi
and all you hear is silence and the sounds of
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nature and how healing that could be. In a perfect situation,
I would love to just go out in nature. But
then I think about, man... It's hard not being able
to go to a bathroom where you can just flush
the toilet. It's hard to not be able to just
adjust the AC. And at some point you're just like,
I want to go home. I don't want to be
in nature anymore. All the waterfalls, the big open fields,
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the mountains, the lakes, all of those things just brought
out the side of me that said, I want to
sell all my possessions and go full into the wild
like the movie with Emile Hirsch and just go live
out in the middle of nowhere and not be bothered
and just be alone with my thoughts for a second.
But then I see all the things that happened to
Brad Pitt's character and I'm like, you know what, I'm good.
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Heart of the Beast also reminded me of what I
believe to be one of the most underrated movies of
the 90s, Wild America, with Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It's about
three dudes from Arkansas who just go out to nature
and film things. This was one of my favorite movies
growing up and it's one I feel does not get
enough recognition when we talk about great movies from the 90s.
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But this movie, when I first watched it as a kid,
I thought, man, I need to go out and experience
nature like these people. Jonathan Taylor Thomas was also at
his peak when this movie came out. So underrated movie
of the 90s, Wild America. That is what Heart of
the Beast reminded me of. So this is a very
captivating story, a very powerful story. One thing I feel
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I'm gonna be overly critical on was the use of
the CGI animals. And I understand. They can't get a
real bear. You just can't. You can't get a bear
that looks this massive and mean in this movie and
do it safely. I understand that. But I just felt
like the graphics on the animals could have been better.
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Because that took me out of it a little bit.
Because it was so apparent that the bear was digital.
And I don't know why special effects are getting worse.
I remember watching Hancock with Will Smith back in the 2000s,
maybe 2007 or probably 2008, no later than 2009. I
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remember watching that movie and thinking, man, Hollywood can make
anything look real. That was around the time I thought
anything should be possible in movies. I should be able
to go to any world and Hollywood should be able
to make it believable. And since then, Special effects have
gotten so worse to where I think, where is the
quality control? Do people actually think that this looks good?
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Especially in the theater where it's totally blown up on
the screen, you can see how unreal these moments look.
And I know you're not going to get Brad Pitt
next to a real bear of that size. You're not
going to be able to make animals fight in nature.
like this. There are even moments when Odin is digital.
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And I knew that was going on because obviously you
can't make a dog show emotion. There's one point where,
where they try to make Odin look a little bit
sad and they use the digital version of him. But
how are we signing off on some of these special
effects in 2026 and saying, all right, that's good. Let's
put it out in theaters and let's tell people that
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they need to pay IMAX money to go see this.
Special effects need to get better. Please do better. So
I did dock it a little bit for that. But
my top five Brad Pitt movies of all time at
number five, I have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
which we are getting the sequel to that. We are
learning more about the character of Cliff Booth. That is
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one of the best Brad Pitt roles of all time.
At number four, I have Fury, which is not only
one of my favorite Brad Pitt movies of all time,
but it is my all-time favorite war movie. Bonus points
for his sick haircut in that. At number three is
where I would put Fight Club. Completely changed my life
the first time I watched Fight Club. One of the
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best twists in cinematic history. one of the best final
lines in cinematic history paired with a fantastic song. At
number three, I have Fight Club. At number two, I
have Moneyball, which is my second favorite baseball movie of
all time, only behind Angels in the Outfield, has one
of my favorite sports movie quotes of all time. How
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can you not be romantic about baseball? At number two,
I have Moneyball. But at number one, My favorite Brad
Pitt movie, also my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie of all time,
Inglourious Bastards. So many memorable quotes from that movie. We're
in the killing Nazi business.
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Go allow me.
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My number one Brad Pitt movie of all time, Inglourious Bastards.
When it comes to the heart of the beast, I
give it a strong four out of five airplanes.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
This has been a fantastic year for IMAX, for big movies.
Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey. We have Dune Part 3
coming out later this year. I think people have realized
that there is value to watching something on the biggest
screen possible. And for a long time there in the pandemic...
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A lot of actors and directors were saying, you need
to go see this on the biggest screen possible, and
then it's just a normal movie theater screen, which is fine,
which still enhances the experience. But I think this year,
Hollywood came to play. The legit biggest screen possible is
an IMAX screen. So if you are an IMAX fan,
this has been... A banner year for you. And with
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all those big movies coming out this year, I think
this one is the one I am the most excited about,
the most hyped for, because the sequel to Godzilla Minus
One is coming out on November 6th here in America.
It is called Godzilla Minus Zero. It is set two
years after the first film. Now, the first one is
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available for you to watch on Netflix. So if you
haven't seen this movie yet, I... rarely rate movies a
five out of five. But when this movie came out
in 2023, I went to the theater to watch it
opening night and- I am somebody who doesn't need a
whole lot of convincing to go watch a Godzilla movie.
I just saw Godzilla Minus One is coming out. I
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want to go see that. All I needed to see
was the poster and to know it was made by
Japanese filmmakers where Godzilla needs to be. America doesn't get
it right. We need to stop making all these Godzilla movies,
having Godzilla fight Kong. Those movies are a disaster. They're
okay for what they are, just big monsters fighting against
each other. But Godzilla Minus One... It has so much
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artistry to it, so much so that the entire movie
was shot for $ 10 to $ 15 million and went on
to gross over $ 100 million. But it looks way better
than any of the Godzilla movies we've had in the
United States in the last 10 years that they've been
rebooting it here. Now, if you think about the difference
in budget, again, Godzilla minus one, the first one was
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made between 10 to 15 million dollars and ended up
winning an Oscar for best visual effects. Godzilla versus Kong
cost between 155 to 165 million dollars. That is the
one that came out back in 2021. And then Godzilla
and Kong, the new empire, which came out a couple
of years ago, cost between $ 135 and $ 150 million. So
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you are here looking at two different takes on this character,
one that cost over $ 100 million, close to like $ 110,
$ 120 million more, and one is so significant and so
well put together, so thought out, made with an incredibly
small budget, and the other one is so forgettable. Looks
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like everything else coming out right now when it comes
to big screen action movies. That is the difference in
understanding the assignment. So what Godzilla minus zero is about
is it takes place two years after the original movie
where I guess it's kind of a spoiler alert. But
they defeat Godzilla in the first one, which in any
big monster movie, they always defeat the monster. But now
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in Godzilla minus zero, Godzilla is back. Obviously, they're making
a sequel to the movie about Godzilla. Godzilla is going
to be in it again. So I don't feel like
that's a major spoiler here. But upon Godzilla returning after
they think we completely finished the job, well, they got
it wrong. But not only do they have to worry
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about Godzilla this time, we are also potentially getting... Godzilla's
arch nemesis in this movie as well. So a lot
to talk about in this one. I do want to
play a little bit of the trailer, but it is
in Japanese. So I'll still play you about 25, maybe
close to 30 seconds. You won't understand the words, but
I'll explain it later. And that'll give us a great
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time to talk about movies that are in subtitles. So
before I get into it more, again, coming out on
November 6th this year in IMAX, here is the trailer
for Godzilla Minus Zero.
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So what.
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You hear in that trailer is them realizing, man, we
gotta go up against Godzilla again. There's a fantastic shot
of Godzilla... And his atomic blast suspending all of these
airplanes kind of mid-air feels more sci-fi than the first one,
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which I do enjoy that. Hopefully they don't go too
far into the sci-fi. But again, he is an atomic
big lizard who has these powers where, gosh, I love
the special effect in the first one where he charges
up and basically all of the spikes pop up on
his back in this like electric blue neon. And then
once he's fully charged up, he lets out one big
Godzilla roar. Out comes that beam. And he can destroy
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an entire city in one shot. But then he just
goes back into the water because he has to charge up.
It takes a long time. But you see him suspending
all of these planes. But then the really great shot
that you see here towards the end of the trailer
is Godzilla just being tossed by a bigger villain. To
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see a monster as big as Godzilla being thrown around
like a sack of potatoes is insane. So I cannot
wait to see Godzilla. What is only rumored now to
be King Ghidorah, who in the history of Godzilla is
his big arch nemesis. He is a golden dragon monster
with three heads that you hear a little sound effect
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in there before he drops. That is the indication that
it's going to be this character. But the thing that
stuck out to me so much about the first one
is how great Godzilla looked, especially in all the water scenes.
The one where it's just Godzilla's head poking out from
the water, chasing that small little boat that they're on.
I can only imagine how good a three-headed, just giant
golden dragon monster is going to look in comparison. Also,
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initially we were teased that Godzilla will be coming to
New York City. There's a fantastic poster of Godzilla walking
behind the Statue of Liberty. So bring us over Godzilla
into the Big Apple. I cannot wait to see those scenes.
Godzilla Minus One is also making franchise history as being
the first Godzilla movie to ever receive an R rating
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in the United States. They list it as some violent
content and bloody images in its rating. So it's a
step up from the PG-13 version that we got in
Godzilla Minus One. Most importantly, you also have the same director, writer,
and person overseeing the visual effects. So it's going to
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match the quality of Godzilla Minus One. When talking about
the title, the first one is called Godzilla Minus Zero.
It's because this movie takes place in 1945. So you
are looking at a post-World War II Japan. They are
in turmoil. Japan has literally hit rock bottom, and then
they get dragged into something even worse, having to deal
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with Godzilla. So they are already super vulnerable and just
completely out of resources and energy to fight something. Then
they have to take on Godzilla. So it is Godzilla.
They are minus one. They are less than an actual percent.
So then here in the sequel, they are building up again.
They think their biggest threat is now gone. They are
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on their journey to recovery. and trying to get back
to that baseline of zero after normal life so in
a way the numbers are kind of going in reverse
order so they're just trying to get back to just
baseline not even like plus one or plus two just
zero they just want to be at zero You also
have a lot of the original cast coming back in
this movie where it almost looks like they filmed these
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movies back to back because they look exactly the same,
kind of the same settings, but just the special effects
have a little bit of a facelift. It's not reported
how much the budget grew between the first one and
the second one. Probably if I had to assume they
got at least double the budget. So maybe they're working
with 20 to 25 million here. But I really like
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the way it looks of having all those same characters back.
And seeing how devastated they are to see Godzilla returning.
Because they went through hell in the first movie. They
fought so hard to outsmart Godzilla. And I have to
imagine Godzilla is going to be even more difficult to
take down in this film. Because then you won't actually
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be dealing just with Godzilla. You'll also have his arch
nemesis in play as well. That is the other thing
I love about Godzilla. Is most of the times he's
a bad guy. He is the one destroying cities that
they're all trying to defeat. But then sometimes you kind
of root for him. And I know they do that
a little bit more in the American version where you
root for Godzilla to take down the other monster. So
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I have to imagine that I'm going to find myself
feeling a little sympathetic towards the monster here. And I
always kind of have that issue of rooting for the
bad guys in movies just because I'm like, man, I
want to see the most destruction possible. Let's root for
the bad guy. So sometimes I'm empathetic towards the person
causing the most destruction just because I think that makes
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for a more entertaining movie. In the real world, I'm
not going to be doing that. But in a movie,
I love to see chaos. I love to see a
big monster ripping apart cities like they are nothing, like
he's just blowing his nose in a tissue and throwing
it in the trash can. But in this case, I
feel like Godzilla is going to emerge as the hero
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at some point. Or maybe they find a way to
kill two birds with one stone. But I think at
some point, we are going to be rooting for that
big giant lizard. So if you've not seen Godzilla Minus One,
it is available on Netflix. And if you are somebody
who is hesitant of watching movies with subtitles, I actually
think this is a really good place to start. But
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what I would encourage you to do, and I know
some people it makes you a little bit uncomfortable, but
watch it. with only English subtitles because I think you
get the emotion of this movie so much more. And
whenever I go see these movies in theaters, I'm kind
of forced to do it that way because when you
go see it in theaters, they play international films in
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the language which they were filmed in and you get
English subtitles. At home, you have the ability to change it,
but I always feel like the emotion is lost in translation.
And I've tried this myself because I do speak Spanish
and sometimes I'll watch a movie not even a full movie,
but I'll watch a scene. I'll start out and just
see what they translate things into from Spanish to English.
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And it doesn't hit the same way. They change things
that can change the impact of a scene and the
message of a scene because of how they determine to
interpret some of those scenes and the languages. And some
things just cannot be translated. But when you watch it
in its native language, you feel the emotion more. You
get the performances of those actors, even though You don't
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know what they are saying. You can feel it more,
especially with Godzilla Minus One, which actually has a lot
of emotional depth, which you don't really think about. It
is a story of redemption. It is a story of
PTSD and wanting to do the right thing when maybe
you haven't done the right thing in the past. It
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also is a story about family and starting brand new.
So you have all those things inside of a movie
about Godzilla. So I would encourage you to hop over
to Netflix if you haven't watched it. I do rate
it a five out of five. I know probably an
overrated movie now at this point for a lot of people.
You're going to think, man, in no way is this
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movie a five out of five. I had nothing to
base it on. There was no hype around this movie.
Nobody else told me about this movie and ended up
leaving feeling like I'd just been transformed. There are these
movies that I feel set this ripple off in my
brain and That changed me forever. And that is what
Godzilla Minus One did for me. And that is why
I'm so excited to see a sequel this year and
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be able to see it in IMAX, where if you
go watch this trailer on YouTube, I think they do
a really good job of showing you the difference that
IMAX makes. Because when you're watching a YouTube video, especially
when it comes to trailers, you see the wide shot
and you see the black on top and the black
on bottom. That is normally how you watch a movie
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in theaters. But there is a moment towards the end
of the trailer where it just opens up from top
to bottom. So it takes your plane of view of
just being this horizontal sliver to suddenly being this shot
that takes up all of your screen. So it's kind
of hard to explain when you just see a picture
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of it. But if you see it in motion, go
from one aspect ratio to another aspect, you can see
the difference of going to watch this movie in IMAX
and how much more information you get, how much more
of a scope of the landscape that you get. So
if you've ever said to yourself, why do people go
on and on about IMAX? I can't tell the difference.
If you go watch this trailer and see that moment
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where they pull the screen, you can see how much
more you are getting when you actually go watch it
in IMAX. But not only that, the sound is also enhanced,
which The Godzilla sound effects, the charging up sound, the
score in this movie adds an entirely different level to
really make you feel like you're being chased by Godzilla.
So that is why I'm so excited about this. That
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is why I'm hyped on Godzilla Minus Zero. Not too
far away, so I got to go get my tickets.
It's coming out on November 6th. And that was this
week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer Park. And that is
going to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
But before I go, I got to give my listener
shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over
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to Twitter, which Twitter kind of feel, I guess it's
called X, but Twitter kind of feels like there was
a mall I loved going to growing up. It was
called Redbird Mall that was in Dallas. And my family
did not have any money to go to the mall
and just go shopping every weekend. But we would go
just as mere entertainment of walking around the mall, going
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into Electronics Boutique, which, I don't know, it might have
been a regional thing, but it was essentially a GameStop
of the late 90s, early 2000s, going to Sam Goody,
which does no longer exist. It was a music store
where you could go hit a button on a screen
and listen to clips of hit songs on a pair
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of headphones that a bunch of people just shared and
used all the time. We would just walk around the
mall and I was just so like, wow, this is
the mall. This is where everything happens. And that was
a great memory for me. So much so that even
now as an adult, doing a mall lab is still
fun and exciting to me. I don't have to buy
a single thing. I just love going to the mall.
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But there was a moment when Redbird Mall was no
longer cool, where all the stores just started shutting down.
I think they changed the name of it. And it
became kind of this graveyard of what used to be.
A place that time just kind of forgot where you
saw all these stores. They used to be so filled
with people and products on the shelves and making a
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bunch of money. One by one, they would all just
go down. And in its place would go a t-shirt
shop that sold airbrush t-shirts with your name on it.
You had like a massage station. You had the food
court closed. Whenever the food court closes, you know that's bad.
And then you have just like random tattoo shops opening up.
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And then every other spot is probably like a vape store.
The Sears closed. All these things started shutting down. And
it just didn't feel like people went there to shop
anymore because the mall was dead. Long story short, that
is what Twitter feels like now where... It is a
place that used to be filled with all this content.
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Celebrities used to post on there all the time. You
could go and get all your news. And now it
just kind of feels like it's that one vape shop
just keeping the entire building alive. So I rarely go
over to X, but I will go over to X
for this week's listener shout out of the week. That
goes to John G, who said the badass Mike DiStro
had the incredible superstar Taylor Swift on his movie podcast.
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I am so proud of Mike on how awesome he
did interviewing a superstar. His confidence is 100. Check out
the episode wherever you get your podcasts. And John even
posted the link to the episode. This will be the
last shout out I do on that experiment we did
here a couple of weeks ago, which I think went okay. Again,
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I wasn't trying to scam anybody. I think the unfortunate
result that I got were the people who are kind
of close to me, but don't listen to the radio
show or don't listen to this podcast. They legit thought
I had Taylor Swift on here and were texting me like, congrats,
this is super exciting. And I had to be like,
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it's kind of a bit. I didn't mean to deceive you,
but appreciate that, John. Thank you, everybody else who has
played along and continue to comment on that Instagram. post
as well. Because now that this week I had a
legit interview in person, nobody's going to believe me. But
that's showbiz, right? So thank you for being here. Thank
you for being subscribed. And until next time, go out
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and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
Hello and welcome back to Movie Mike's Movie Podcast. I'm
your host Movie Mike. This is cool because I get
to sit down with Josh Holloway who played Sawyer on
Lost which is one of my favorite TV shows of
all time. He has a new movie called Flint that
actually has ties back to Lost. 20 years in the
making I would say. So we'll get into that interview.
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In the movie review I'll be talking about Heart of
the Beast starring Brad Pitt. Is it the best Brad
Pitt movie of all time? And in the trailer park
We'll talk about one of my most anticipated movies in
IMAX coming out later this year, Godzilla Minus Zero, that
now has an R rating and I am ready to
go and watch this movie immediately. I would go right
now if I could. So thank you for being here.
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Thank you for being subscribed. Shout out to the Monday
Morning Movie Crew, basically anybody who subscribed to this podcast.
Shout out to you. Thank you. And now, let's talk movies.
From the Dice Trail Podcast Network, this is Movie Mike's
Movie Podcast. Josh Holloway, you would probably know him best
as Sawyer on Lost, which is one of my favorite
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shows of all time. Not just a top ten show,
but a top five show of my lifetime. I feel
like I went to the island myself. Some people have
issues with the ending of that show. I loved every
aspect of Lost and thought he was fantastic in it.
He was also recently on Yellowstone. He was in the J.J.
Abrams series Duster on HBO Max. He's also been in
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projects like Sabotage, Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol. But we are
here to talk about his new movie called Flint. which
is a movie 20 years in the making. Josh plays
James Kettleman, who is a hardened, wealthy East Coast businessman
who learns that he is dying. So he returns back
to the frontier. He adopts the name of the killer
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who raised him, Flint, who in the movie is played
by Charles Esten, which if you watch Nashville, you know
Charles Esten, or if like me, you watch Whose Line
Is It Anyway back in the day, you would know
him from that too. He's also in Outer Banks, which
just wrapped up on Netflix. It is a independent Western,
and I think We don't really get a whole lot
of these movies right now. So I want to talk
to Josh about independent filmmaking, him doing his own stunts
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in the movie. And of course, we got to talk
about Lost. Also cool because I got to do this
on location during the Nashville Film Festival here in town.
And I got to go to my local Regal Theater,
the same theater I go to all the time to
watch all the movies I tell you about. And we're
sitting in the front row on those big comfy recliners
as we do this interview. So here is my conversation
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with Josh Holloway.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Josh, how did you grow up?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I grew up in the 70s, bro. They didn't have
chairs like this.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What was a movie theater like?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
The first theater you went to, what was it like?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Well, it was the Dollar Theater. Actually, the first one
I really remember was Star Wars.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
You went to Star Wars?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
I went to Star Wars when Star Wars was in
the theaters. I was like seven years old. Three brothers,
or two brothers at the time. And we walked in there.
not knowing anything about it, and walked out with our
jaws on the ground. Like, that was a cinematic experience. Like, unforgettable.
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Star Wars?
Speaker 1 (03:10):
How did that change your trajectory? Did you watch Star
Wars and think, I want to do that? Or did
you just see that and think, like, that was awesome?
Speaker 3 (03:17):
No, I wanted to be Luke Skywalker and Han Solo
and all of them. Are you kidding me? But not
for real. I just thought... You know, like a normal child. No,
did I want to be an actor at that point?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
No.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
But did I want to be Luke Skywalker? Yes.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Everybody wanted to be Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So when did it start for you? Because I know
you got started in modeling, but when did you decide,
I want.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
To be an actor?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Strangely, I kind of just fell through the cracks. I
was a model for years, and then I had opened
a development company in Georgia, so we were building houses.
But I was living in New York, so it was
all on the phone and fax. Remember fax?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I don't remember fact. I know it from movies.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Anyway, that was no fun because it was just all
paperwork and phone. And then I opened a restaurant in
Los Angeles. It was huge for a year and crashed
like everything in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Restaurant's tough business.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And then I was thinking, well, why not try acting?
I've always wanted to do it and just been afraid
to try it. So I went to this four-day intensive.
And it was with this acting coach named Corey Allen,
who happened to be Buzz in Rebel Without a Cause,
opposite James Dean. He was the main antagonist in Rebel
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Without a Cause.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
What was your first big yes? Lost. Lost. That's a
big yes.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That was the big one. My first time on film
was with Alicia Silverstone in the Cryin' video.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I saw that.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
That was the first time.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You were like a criminal in that arrest.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Sold her back. Terrible. That was like foreshadowing of all
my characters. You know, flirt with a girl, con them.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
No.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
But that, and then I did Walker, Texas Ranger with Chuck,
with the original Chuck Norris. It was fantastic.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
So you're on loss, and I think that's a good
segue into this, because- The movie, you actually bought the
movie rights to Flint when you were working on Lost, right?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, I didn't buy the rights. I approached Bo L'Amour,
and we talked about it, and he was like, not yet.
You're not old enough. I was like, bro, gray my beard.
You know, we can make it work. And so we
started our relationship then.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
20 years ago. 20 years ago.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And we started a development process then. And then I
had another series that took me out of country and
it just kind of went away. And then we came
back to it. So I've been touching base with Mo,
I mean, Bo L'Amour for 20 years. And then finally
he called me where he's like, I have a writer.
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I want to do this. I trust in it. And
then I helped him get his father's entire project, a
library represented through UTA. So we put things in motion.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
So tell me about this book because you read this book.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yes. And you were so just enamored with this book
that you decided like, I need to make this, I
need to be a part of this. What was it
about this book that has you here right now about
a walk into the premiere?
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've read a lot of books, read a lot of
Westerns and Louis L'Amour is like these quickies that you
can just knock Three days and you're like, boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
I'm not a huge reader. I'm reading this right now
because I watched the movie. I love it. I'm like,
I got to read the book.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It's amazing. And he has such a library. So it
was just something that read it stuck with me. Like,
this is a movie. It writes itself. And we really
attempted to do this true to the book in the Southwest,
in the Malapas. That's a national park. You can't get
to without helicopters.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Can you get to the park without?
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Well, that part where the hideout was.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Got it.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
You're not allowed to do that. So we had to
pivot and adapt the story to Montana.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Which looks beautiful.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Which is amazing and beautiful, but luckily our writers and
everyone were agile enough to do that, and Bo agreed. Yes,
it's a different setting, but we kept as true to
the story as we could. So that's why it's in Monday. Montana.
We couldn't get there. They wouldn't allow it.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
But it looks so good.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Like I'm watching just the, even the opening scene, like
the train scene, like pulling in on that.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
It looks fantastic.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
But I imagine that has to be a beast to film,
to go somewhere like Montana, be out in the wilderness.
But what I love about it is like you feel
the setting in it. So what was the filming process
being out there?
Speaker 3 (08:07):
It was the best job I ever had. Are you
kidding me? It's Montana. Like you said, I mean, everywhere
you look, is a picture in cinematics. So just the
scale of the scenery was a character in itself. And
the crew were incredible. They were all Montana, like roll
up your sleeves, let's do this for the fun of it.
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And we called it the Flint Sprint. We were like
25 days of real independent movie filming, like indie, but
with that spirit. So it was, Truly one of the
most magical experiences I've had in filmmaking. Everyone was in
it for the love of doing it.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Do you feel like independent filmmaking is kind of having
a moment right now? Where it's kind of cool again.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It's been, it's had a moment a long time since Sundance.
It's just those moments have changed drastically. So yes, kind
of the definition of more of a true independent is back.
Not the multi-million dollar.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
That looks like an independent, but it's like not really
an independent.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Not really an independent, backed by lots of money. The
true ones are coming back, you know, that are really
driven by the creatives and the artistic process without a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
Do you feel like your experience in those 20 years
waiting for this movie to be made has allowed you
to play Flint better? Like if you would have made
it 20 years ago, do you think it would have
been a much different movie? Do you kind of like, Okay,
it did take a long time, but it feels like
this was when it was right.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And life, as long as you're living true to yourself,
life redirects you and you find that things work the
way they're supposed to. So, yes, I was definitely not ready.
And now I've had children. Now I've gone through an
entire career. I've become the age that this character was
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supposed to be. And it has a different weight.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
You did a lot of your own stunts in the movie.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
How demanding is that physically? Like, how do you have
to prepare for that?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
You stay prepared. You just do it. You just do it. Yes.
But it was so much fun, actually. What I did
with this one, because it's a Western, I came here
two weeks earlier. I went to kind of what I
call cowboy camp. And I grew up riding my whole
life and kind of growing up being a cowboy. But
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to actually learn the skills was so much fun and tough.
I had saddle sores, like couldn't, could barely walk. you're
learning these big weapons. First time I cocked that big rifle,
I broke my pinky. And they're like, use all your fingers,
not just your pinky. I'm like, oh, you know, you
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have to learn these ancient weapons. They're different than the modern.
So that was a lot of fun and such a journey.
Speaker 1 (11:08):
What's the most useful skill you've learned that you had
maybe learned for a role and maybe now you like
use it in everyday life or it's just like, wow,
I can't believe I learned that.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
Is it like dealing with weapons? Is it something else?
Speaker 3 (11:20):
So many. Actually, the latest one, and I can't use
it anymore. I'm so mad. My series Duster on HBO was,
I was a wheel man for the mafia, so I
went to stunt school. So I can parallel park at
full speed. I can put the license plate right in
the camera. Oh, I'm terrible at parallel parking. I can
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do all of that, like all those crazy stunts you see.
I can do all those slings. It's bomb.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
I feel like that's the best skill to learn. That's
the best skill.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
At Pondidoo.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Lost this week, 22 years ago it premiered. I'm sure
you've been tagged in stuff like crazy. When you see
all that stuff popping up in your feed, what's the
first thing that comes to your mind? Like, is it
a great memory?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Is it just like.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
It's like unbelievable. Really? People still are watching this. It
still has legs. It's shocking, but it's... I feel proud
of it. When it comes up, I'm still proud of it.
I've always been proud of it, but it's not something
I think about all the time, and I don't tag
anything because I'm not on it. My wife does all
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the social media stuff. She helps me. I'm just not
in the tech world. So I hear about this from
you guys and my wife.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Oh, you know these things are going on. Still debating
the finale, all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I'm like, really? So I'm a little removed from that,
but it's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Josh, this has been great.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
All the best.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Good luck with the film.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Thank you. Appreciate it, brother.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
I also wanted to talk about this list of the
highest grossing actors in the world because as of a
couple of weeks ago, Tom Holland has now earned his
spot at the top being the highest grossing actor of
all time. Obviously, a big contribution to that has been
Spider-Man Brand New Day this year. Also, The Odyssey. Also,
it didn't really contribute to this, but him getting married
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to Zendaya and them going out in public together. Seeing
Zendaya and Tom Holland at the Emmys together, sitting at
a table, him there cheering her on, even though I
wish he would have won. But just seeing them two
out in public, feeling like a real couple, which to
me are like that really great Hollywood couple. We don't
really have those anymore that have a little bit of
mystery involved. They're not on social media a whole lot,
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but he is somebody that I believe not only is
a good person on screen, but off screen. So I
love it that he is at number one. Let's take
a look at this entire list, which obviously if he
is at number one, because I don't even think he's
one of the most famous people in the world. Spider-Man,
the character is worldwide known, but I think to my mom,
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she probably couldn't tell you Tom Holland's name. she would
maybe recognize him as Spider-Man. So I think the fact
that he is number one is quite an accomplishment because
I also don't think he is at that level where
it is guaranteed he's going to have a successful career.
Although I really hope that for him because I enjoy
his work so much. But I think because he comes
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from a superhero background where the Spider-Man brand is bigger
than he is as an actor. Again, I love him.
And I know this sounds like I'm kind of crapping
on his career. That's not what I'm trying to say here.
I just think the unfortunate result of becoming famous from
playing a superhero, and we're going to see that all
throughout this list, is that that superhero is always going
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to be a bigger star than you, unfortunately. And I
think the thing with Tom Holland and a lot of
these actors is they almost have to work twice as
hard because even though they have all the money here,
not that they make as much money that all these
earn at the box office and they have that all
in their bank account, but I think they have to
work twice as hard Because they have all this success
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from these movies. But it's so hard for them just
to go do a movie that's not a Captain America.
That's not a Spider-Man. Because people just see them and
they want to see their favorite superheroes. And it's hard.
Once you have that character associated with that actor that
you love so much. You love Spider-Man so much. Sometimes
it is hard. to see them in any other roles
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and be excited about those other roles. That's why we
see Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans continue to come back
to the MCU because that's where the good payday is
and that's where all the love and admiration is. But
I think Tom Holland is one that can do it
because he did a really good job in the Odyssey.
I feel like he has those performances in him, even
going back to some of his early departures from the MCU,
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like Devil All the Time that starred another superhero, Robert
Pattinson as Batman. I am really rooting for him. And
I also feel like him being married to Zendaya, who
has such a vast and large body of work that
is all so different. If he has somebody like her
on his side that can help navigate through picking those
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right roles and being his sounding board, I also think
he has a better chance than anybody else on this list.
So getting into the top 10 highest grossing actors of
all time in the world. This is based on the
worldwide box office. And number 10 is Chris Evans, who
has a total box office earnings of $ 11. 49 billion. This
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is largely from the MCU. So Captain America, Avengers, and
Knives Out are listed as his top earning movies. Chris
Evans is one of those actors that I've already mentioned here.
It has been very hard for him to branch out
from the Captain America role. I think outside of the MCU, post-Endgame,
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my favorite Chris Evans movie has been Materialists. Him and
Dakota Johnson, I think that was a perfect role for him.
I really wish he would just go full rom-com guy.
I think he works really well in that genre. He's
done movies like The Gray Man with Ryan Gosling where...
He's kind of been put into this action star where
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I don't really fully see that in him. If he's
not Captain America, maybe just hasn't found the right action world.
He's also in a movie coming out on Netflix pretty
soon called Sacrifice with him and Anya Taylor-Joy. That actually
looks pretty good. So I think he just needs that one,
not even just one big hit, but he needs one
big hit franchise. And I think he would be okay.
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But again, all these people are fine. They have millions
and millions of dollars. Because the thing I always think,
if you have a hit as a superhero, you could
go and do Comic-Cons for the rest of your life.
I know people who are in one minor nerdy movie
in the 80s and have had a career of doing
Comic-Cons and signing autographs and Funko Pops. There's nothing wrong
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with that. I can respect that. I wish I was
in some random 90s movie and could have written off
that for my entire life. or at least like have
it as my side hustle for the rest of my life.
But at number 10, we have Chris Evans. And number
nine is Vin Diesel with a box office earnings of
$ 12. 04 billion. This comes from Fast and the Furious, that
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entire franchise, but he's also in the MCU because he
is Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, where he goes
in and basically just says, I am Groot several different ways.
And that's how he gets his money. He gets credit
for all those movies starring in them. And then it
wasn't until Guardians of the Galaxy 3 where he actually
had a full line. But Vin Diesel, ironically, puts out
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some really good voice work where he has to work
very little. Because before that, him in the Iron Giant,
the voice of the giant, where that giant doesn't say
a whole lot, but that's Vin Diesel. So somehow he
has cornered the market on, I'm going to be a
voice actor, but only... voicing characters who have very little
to say. Vin Diesel, man, where is that next Fast
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and the Furious movie? He's been teasing us now for
like three years. We were supposed to get that right
after the last one. Please, Vin Diesel, get this movie
out now. I need to go experience it. Vin Diesel
is at number nine. At number eight is Chris Hemsworth
with a total of $ 12. 19 billion. This is straight MCU.
His top movies... Listed here are Thor, Avengers, and Extraction,
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which is a Netflix movie. He is somebody who, he
looks like an action star. Extraction is a solid action movie,
but it doesn't really move the needle on me being
more of a Chris Hemsworth fan. But that's kind of
his franchise because he also did Extraction 2 in 2023.
And I don't really remember what happened in that one.
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Extraction 1 I have a pretty good memory of because
when that came out in 2021. That felt like a
little bit of a moment. The third act in that movie,
that final scene, that was cool. But Extraction 2, kind
of forgettable. And he is going to be in Extraction 3,
which is currently in development at Netflix. The Netflix movie
of his that I thought was going to be his, okay,
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I can play a different character. I thought that was
going to be Spider-Head, which came out in 2022. where
he played a scientist in this high-tech prison. It also
starred Miles Teller. That movie was really good for about
20 minutes, and then it kind of lost me. Aside
from the premise of that movie, it was pretty forgettable.
And then I had that same feeling when Chris Hemsworth
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was in Furiosa, which was the Mad Max prequel movie,
where he looked insane in the trailer, and his character
with his hair, the facial kind of augmentation that made
him look a little bit different. I thought his performance
was pretty limited in that movie. So I am still
waiting to see a different side of Chris Hemsworth that
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really sticks. But at number eight, you have Chris Hemsworth.
At number seven, quite honestly, I thought this guy would
be higher. But it's Tom Cruise with $ 13. 36 billion. His
highest earning movies have been Mission Impossible. That's an entire franchise, obviously.
The Top Gun movies and War of the Worlds. Man,
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War of the Worlds really changed my life when that
movie first came out. Where that was prime, me being
fascinated by aliens. Also in the 2000s, any End of
the World style movie just hit a little bit different.
Steven Spielberg, that's when he was still doing good alien movies.
Now the question is, will Tom Cruise add to that
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total with Digger coming out this weekend?
Speaker 2 (21:44):
Man... I kind of.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Feel like this movie is going to flop. I think
this will be the movie I review next week. But
based on the trailer, based on my feeling of the
director and his body of work, I just don't really
see audiences resonating with this story enough to want to
go pay money to see it in theaters. Every time
I see the trailer, I think it looks unfinished. The
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color grading just looks off to me. It looks like
they went straight.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Here it is.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
Film on camera. Put that out in theaters. They didn't
run that through any kind of color processing. And I
know that's the style. But to me, the actual cinematography
in that trailer looks crazy. It looks big, wacky, elaborate.
But the colors just look off to me where it
feels like something that just looks like test footage. And
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I just don't think Tom Cruise as this really elaborate
character is going to work. And I know he's done
characters like this before. I think this is going to
be one of those movies. That was very fun for
him to do. He wanted to do this collaboration. But
it's been really hard for me to be excited about Digger.
Even seeing the popcorn bucket that looks kind of cool.
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I just don't think this is going to go in
the direction that he wants it to go. And then
with the last Mission Impossible movie just not really delivering
at the box office. That entire franchise being kind of
shipped off on kind of a low note. I hope
that at some point Tom Cruise just goes back to
doing straight-up dramas, or maybe even a little bit of rom-com.
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But I do commend him for being somebody really pushing
everybody to go back to the theater. I think that's
why he does a big, loud movie like Digger. I'm
just not that excited about it. But at number seven,
you have Tom Cruise. I think after this, pretty much
everybody is some superhero. Because at number six is Robert
Downey Jr. with $ 14. 32 billion dollars. Iron Man, Avengers. They
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also have Sherlock Holmes and Oppenheimer listed as his key projects.
Give Robert Downey Jr. all the money. He is only
going to rise on this list because he has Doomsday
coming out later this year. He's also going to be
in Secret Worlds. So he's going back into the well.
If anybody on this list has the best chance of
earning their way to the top, it has to be
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Robert Downey Jr. I think him being down there at
number six... That's low for him. And that's just because
he's been out of the MCU game since 2019. But
just wait for it. With these two movies that could
end up being two of the highest grossing movies of
all time, Doomsday is going to get up there on
that list because if Brand New Day crushed it as
much as it did this year, Avengers Doomsday is going
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to go even harder. So he has the chance of
beating out everybody listed before him because at number five
is Samuel L. Jackson's at $ 14. 61 billion. So he's only
like 0.3 away from Sam Jackson. And Sam Jackson, kind
of unfairly, as Nick Fury, just isn't around anymore. They
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kind of did him dirty in this phase of the MCU,
but his key projects are the Avengers. He's also in
Star Wars, which people forget about that. He fought for
that purple lightsaber. George Lucas gave that thing to him.
He is also in Pixar's The Incredible. It's listed as
some of his most profitable movies. movies but he could
go down in this list because he's not in the
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mcu anymore they could bring him back but man after
secret invasion that left such a bad taste in my
mouth so i can see him going down on this
list then at number four you have chris pratt at
15.16 billion dollars jurassic world is listed for him before
the mcu but then you have the avengers movies you
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have guardians He is also the voice of Mario in
the Super Mario Brothers movies, which is another billion dollar franchise.
They could honestly keep making those movies until the end
of time. That could be a next MCU level franchise
because you have your main, your tent poles, you have
your Super Mario movies. But then they could do, obviously
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they're doing not an animation, but you have the Zelda
movie inside of that same world. but they could do
a Kirby movie, they could do a Super Smash Brothers movie,
Donkey Kong, all these opportunities for Mario to make cameos
all throughout the Nintendo world. So, Chris Pratt is looking
pretty good at number four. He could quite possibly at
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least hop up into top three if the next Mario
movie is also a billion dollar movie, which the first
two have been. At number three, you have Scarlett Johansson
at $ 15. 4 billion dollars. Most of her money comes from
the MCU, but also Jurassic World Rebirth, which still made
a lot of money, even though, man, I hope they
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never make another Jurassic World movie. Like, just kill that franchise.
It is good. We don't need to explore that world anymore.
It's been beaten to death. Let's start fresh. Let's make
more movies like The End of Oak Street, where you
also have dinosaurs, but it's just not the Jurassic Park format.
Or just go straight R. Just go straight R Jurassic
Park movie. That is going to be the only way
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you get me excited about that franchise again, but that's
never going to happen because it's not going to translate
to a family film. It's not going to do well internationally,
but I think I'm a little bit over the formula.
I say that now, but if they put out another
one next summer, I'd probably go watch it. But Scarlett
Johansson at number three, that's pretty good for her because
she is somebody who doesn't need to do big Hollywood
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summer blockbuster movies. She can just go do a bunch
of indie darlings. She could go do another Wes Anderson movie.
She is good on money. Has been working her entire
life since she was a kid. She could just go
off of Colin Jost and leave the spotlight and never
work again. That is the only reason I say that
she could go down on this list. But she is
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also somebody who is very driven and I think still
loves being a part of big franchises. So... I think
she will go down only because I think Chris Pratt
and Robert Downey Jr. are going to bump up on
this list. At number two, who was number one for
the longest amount of time, Zoe Zaldana at $ 15. 47 billion.
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It was always crazy to me that she was not
only in the MCU as Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy.
She was in Star Trek. She was also in Avatar.
That is like a box office cheat code. To be
in the Avatar franchise, where I feel like that's the
best fame for her, because she gets the paycheck, but
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since she's all blue, she doesn't get all the worldwide harassment.
I wonder how that feels as an actor. Because there
are some people not only in Avatar, but also in
the MCU, like Nebula. That's Karen Gillan, who is also
in the Jumanji franchise. And when you see her in Jumanji,
I wonder what it's like for them to be characters
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that are beloved by people. But when they go out
in public, they look nothing like them. So people aren't
stopping them for selfies. They're not asking for their autograph.
And sometimes people do not connect the two. I would
find that kind of nice because you get the money,
which is a great part of it. You get the fulfillment.
You get the credit. You get the opportunities that come
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from that big role. but you don't get the downside
that a bunch of people say is the worst part
of fame. But Zoey has been at number one for
so long because the Avatar movies just constantly dominate, do
really well internationally. But now at number one is Tom
Holland at $ 15. 55 billion. I think he can also stay
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at number one for a pretty good amount of time
because although it's not fully confirmed, he has to be
in the next two Avengers movies. in some capacity and
with the way the last Spider-Man movie ended. I think
we at least need another Spider-Man movie with Tom Holland
giving him five total which would be insane but I
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think that is another at least two billion dollar movie
to get him up to $ 17 billion. So that is
the list. I'll come back and give my spoiler-free review
of Heart of the Beast. People are calling Heart of
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the Beast the best Brad Pitt movie of all time.
And to those people, I say, well, exactly how many
Brad Pitt movies have you seen? Because he is a
fantastic actor. I would say his top five, at least
to me, My personal top five of his are impenetrable.
So if I was really fighting for Heart of the Beast,
maybe I could put it in the top 10 because
it has a lot of things that people love, myself included,
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support for the military, dogs, and Brad Pitt in his 60s.
Those three things together are a great recipe for a
fun time at the movies. It is also just over
an hour and a half, which I feel like, oh,
I've been loving this sweet spot in movies right now.
Not because I believe that movies need to be shorter,
The movie demands a two-hour runtime and keeps my attention.
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I am fine with that. But with a story like
Heart of the Beast that is all about Brad Pitt
leaving the military, just wanting to give his dog Odin
a comfortable retirement. He just wants to go to Alaska,
just him and Odin. They fly in, they land, they
set up a camp, they go hunting. He is trying
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to find these birds and check them off on his list,
just trying to have peace and play fetch with Odin.
give him scratches, do all the things that a dog
deserves after witnessing some of the most disgusting things in humanity,
also sometimes some of the most beautiful things, but he
has been through a lot. And you learn a lot
about Odin and how at night he suffers from PTSD.
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He has these nightmares where he thinks he is back
at war. He starts barking like somebody's about to attack them,
and Brad Pitt is there to calm him down. So
they are best friends, have been best friends for so long,
and now deserve They deserve retirement, and they go to
Alaska to just have this bonding trip together and get
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away from everybody. There is also very little supporting cast
in this movie. You have basically Brad Pitt and Odin,
who in the movie is played by a real-life retired
search-and-rescue dog named Uber, which both of those are great names.
Odin sounds very powerful, very heroic, but Uber is also
a great dog name, but in the movie is played
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by Uber, who... I would say Brad Pitt gives a
great performance in Heart of the Beast, but Uber the
Dog deserves an Oscar. He puts to shame the dog
from A Good Boy last year, which everybody was saying
that that dog needed to win an Oscar. No, Uber
the Dog from Heart of the Beast deserves to win
an Oscar. He better be there at the award show,
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and they better give him some treats and have him
run up on stage and accept his award because he
outperformed Brad Pitt in this movie where... Brad Pitt was good,
but Brad Pitt kind of gives you Brad Pitt. You
know what you pay for when you go see a
Brad Pitt movie. At this point in his career, he
is very charismatic. He is very good looking, has kind
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of this guarded personality, but then is very charming to people.
There's very little supporting cast aside from J.K. Simmons, who
really has a brief scene with Brad Pitt, and he's
really just there to explain to the audience their backstory, which...
The movie jumps right into their Alaska trip, and then
you learn all about their past in war. But they
put J.K. Simmons in there as somebody to come in
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for Brad Pitt to talk to and basically tell the
audience his entire past. So for me, I felt his
character was more for mechanics to let everybody in on
what was going on and not leave a whole lot
of people confused. But it's pretty much just Brad Pitt
and Uber throughout the entire movie. So I would say
it is not a top 10 Brad Pitt movie. but
probably one of the best dog movies I have ever
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seen because I cared way more for Odin than I
did Brad Pitt's character. Even though Brad Pitt's character has
also been through a lot, it's just one battle after another.
As the plot says, he has a heart attack while
flying the plane. Him and Odin go down and then
they are stranded in the wilderness. All these crazy animals
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around them that could kill them, bears and all the things,
all the elements. And they have to walk over 50
miles to a road to try and find somebody to
rescue them. So that is the story of this movie.
No backstory whatsoever. You just hop right in. And I
feel like your mom, your grandpa, somebody in the theater
did bring a younger kid. I would say maybe seven
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or eight years old. I thought that was a little
bit too young because you do have blood injuries that
even to me were a little bit, So even though
the movie is PG-13, because of the cute dog and
how loyal this dog is, I could see maybe bringing
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a younger kid under 13. But gosh, even for me,
some of those things were hard for me to stomach.
This story shows you the realities of war and sometimes
the things that we don't talk about and the things
that we don't realize that men and women go through.
But in this case, animals go through for our freedom
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and to do these things that we have no idea about.
So I think for me, that helped me understand how
these dogs, even though they are animals, they are so
much smarter than you think. I think this dog is
probably smarter than me, way more courageous than I am.
But we think, oh, they're a dog. They're fine. They
get back for more. And you don't even think about
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what they have seen affecting them. It's heavy stuff. But
I think sometimes we don't think about dogs the same
way we think about our men and women who go
over there and fight, which I have the utmost respect for.
But I think this movie shined a light on the dogs,
the canines that go over there and rescue a lot
of those men and women and do really heroic things
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and then come back and are just expected to be
dogs and not freak out at night. So I think
out of all things that I took away from this movie,
it left me with a valuable lesson. of how smart
and how valuable and how much worth all of these
dogs have. So again, give this dog an Oscar, please.
Why I would say this isn't a top 10 Brad
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Pitt movie is because overall the story is pretty simple.
There's really nothing novel about this story. And I love
nature movies. And maybe for the first 10 minutes of
this film, it romanticized that idea of going out in
the middle of nowhere, Being somewhere where there's no Wi-Fi
and all you hear is silence and the sounds of
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nature and how healing that could be. In a perfect situation,
I would love to just go out in nature. But
then I think about, man... It's hard not being able
to go to a bathroom where you can just flush
the toilet. It's hard to not be able to just
adjust the AC. And at some point you're just like,
I want to go home. I don't want to be
in nature anymore. All the waterfalls, the big open fields,
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the mountains, the lakes, all of those things just brought
out the side of me that said, I want to
sell all my possessions and go full into the wild
like the movie with Emile Hirsch and just go live
out in the middle of nowhere and not be bothered
and just be alone with my thoughts for a second.
But then I see all the things that happened to
Brad Pitt's character and I'm like, you know what, I'm good.
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Heart of the Beast also reminded me of what I
believe to be one of the most underrated movies of
the 90s, Wild America, with Jonathan Taylor Thomas. It's about
three dudes from Arkansas who just go out to nature
and film things. This was one of my favorite movies
growing up and it's one I feel does not get
enough recognition when we talk about great movies from the 90s.
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But this movie, when I first watched it as a kid,
I thought, man, I need to go out and experience
nature like these people. Jonathan Taylor Thomas was also at
his peak when this movie came out. So underrated movie
of the 90s, Wild America. That is what Heart of
the Beast reminded me of. So this is a very
captivating story, a very powerful story. One thing I feel
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I'm gonna be overly critical on was the use of
the CGI animals. And I understand. They can't get a
real bear. You just can't. You can't get a bear
that looks this massive and mean in this movie and
do it safely. I understand that. But I just felt
like the graphics on the animals could have been better.
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Because that took me out of it a little bit.
Because it was so apparent that the bear was digital.
And I don't know why special effects are getting worse.
I remember watching Hancock with Will Smith back in the 2000s,
maybe 2007 or probably 2008, no later than 2009. I
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remember watching that movie and thinking, man, Hollywood can make
anything look real. That was around the time I thought
anything should be possible in movies. I should be able
to go to any world and Hollywood should be able
to make it believable. And since then, Special effects have
gotten so worse to where I think, where is the
quality control? Do people actually think that this looks good?
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Especially in the theater where it's totally blown up on
the screen, you can see how unreal these moments look.
And I know you're not going to get Brad Pitt
next to a real bear of that size. You're not
going to be able to make animals fight in nature.
like this. There are even moments when Odin is digital.
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And I knew that was going on because obviously you
can't make a dog show emotion. There's one point where,
where they try to make Odin look a little bit
sad and they use the digital version of him. But
how are we signing off on some of these special
effects in 2026 and saying, all right, that's good. Let's
put it out in theaters and let's tell people that
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they need to pay IMAX money to go see this.
Special effects need to get better. Please do better. So
I did dock it a little bit for that. But
my top five Brad Pitt movies of all time at
number five, I have Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
which we are getting the sequel to that. We are
learning more about the character of Cliff Booth. That is
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one of the best Brad Pitt roles of all time.
At number four, I have Fury, which is not only
one of my favorite Brad Pitt movies of all time,
but it is my all-time favorite war movie. Bonus points
for his sick haircut in that. At number three is
where I would put Fight Club. Completely changed my life
the first time I watched Fight Club. One of the
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best twists in cinematic history. one of the best final
lines in cinematic history paired with a fantastic song. At
number three, I have Fight Club. At number two, I
have Moneyball, which is my second favorite baseball movie of
all time, only behind Angels in the Outfield, has one
of my favorite sports movie quotes of all time. How
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can you not be romantic about baseball? At number two,
I have Moneyball. But at number one, My favorite Brad
Pitt movie, also my favorite Quentin Tarantino movie of all time,
Inglourious Bastards. So many memorable quotes from that movie. We're
in the killing Nazi business.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
Go allow me.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
My number one Brad Pitt movie of all time, Inglourious Bastards.
When it comes to the heart of the beast, I
give it a strong four out of five airplanes.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
It's time to head down to Movie Mike's Trailer Park.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
This has been a fantastic year for IMAX, for big movies.
Project Hail Mary, The Odyssey. We have Dune Part 3
coming out later this year. I think people have realized
that there is value to watching something on the biggest
screen possible. And for a long time there in the pandemic...
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A lot of actors and directors were saying, you need
to go see this on the biggest screen possible, and
then it's just a normal movie theater screen, which is fine,
which still enhances the experience. But I think this year,
Hollywood came to play. The legit biggest screen possible is
an IMAX screen. So if you are an IMAX fan,
this has been... A banner year for you. And with
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all those big movies coming out this year, I think
this one is the one I am the most excited about,
the most hyped for, because the sequel to Godzilla Minus
One is coming out on November 6th here in America.
It is called Godzilla Minus Zero. It is set two
years after the first film. Now, the first one is
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available for you to watch on Netflix. So if you
haven't seen this movie yet, I... rarely rate movies a
five out of five. But when this movie came out
in 2023, I went to the theater to watch it
opening night and- I am somebody who doesn't need a
whole lot of convincing to go watch a Godzilla movie.
I just saw Godzilla Minus One is coming out. I
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want to go see that. All I needed to see
was the poster and to know it was made by
Japanese filmmakers where Godzilla needs to be. America doesn't get
it right. We need to stop making all these Godzilla movies,
having Godzilla fight Kong. Those movies are a disaster. They're
okay for what they are, just big monsters fighting against
each other. But Godzilla Minus One... It has so much
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artistry to it, so much so that the entire movie
was shot for $ 10 to $ 15 million and went on
to gross over $ 100 million. But it looks way better
than any of the Godzilla movies we've had in the
United States in the last 10 years that they've been
rebooting it here. Now, if you think about the difference
in budget, again, Godzilla minus one, the first one was
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made between 10 to 15 million dollars and ended up
winning an Oscar for best visual effects. Godzilla versus Kong
cost between 155 to 165 million dollars. That is the
one that came out back in 2021. And then Godzilla
and Kong, the new empire, which came out a couple
of years ago, cost between $ 135 and $ 150 million. So
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you are here looking at two different takes on this character,
one that cost over $ 100 million, close to like $ 110,
$ 120 million more, and one is so significant and so
well put together, so thought out, made with an incredibly
small budget, and the other one is so forgettable. Looks
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like everything else coming out right now when it comes
to big screen action movies. That is the difference in
understanding the assignment. So what Godzilla minus zero is about
is it takes place two years after the original movie
where I guess it's kind of a spoiler alert. But
they defeat Godzilla in the first one, which in any
big monster movie, they always defeat the monster. But now
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in Godzilla minus zero, Godzilla is back. Obviously, they're making
a sequel to the movie about Godzilla. Godzilla is going
to be in it again. So I don't feel like
that's a major spoiler here. But upon Godzilla returning after
they think we completely finished the job, well, they got
it wrong. But not only do they have to worry
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about Godzilla this time, we are also potentially getting... Godzilla's
arch nemesis in this movie as well. So a lot
to talk about in this one. I do want to
play a little bit of the trailer, but it is
in Japanese. So I'll still play you about 25, maybe
close to 30 seconds. You won't understand the words, but
I'll explain it later. And that'll give us a great
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time to talk about movies that are in subtitles. So
before I get into it more, again, coming out on
November 6th this year in IMAX, here is the trailer
for Godzilla Minus Zero.
Speaker 3 (45:59):
So what.
Speaker 1 (46:03):
You hear in that trailer is them realizing, man, we
gotta go up against Godzilla again. There's a fantastic shot
of Godzilla... And his atomic blast suspending all of these
airplanes kind of mid-air feels more sci-fi than the first one,
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which I do enjoy that. Hopefully they don't go too
far into the sci-fi. But again, he is an atomic
big lizard who has these powers where, gosh, I love
the special effect in the first one where he charges
up and basically all of the spikes pop up on
his back in this like electric blue neon. And then
once he's fully charged up, he lets out one big
Godzilla roar. Out comes that beam. And he can destroy
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an entire city in one shot. But then he just
goes back into the water because he has to charge up.
It takes a long time. But you see him suspending
all of these planes. But then the really great shot
that you see here towards the end of the trailer
is Godzilla just being tossed by a bigger villain. To
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see a monster as big as Godzilla being thrown around
like a sack of potatoes is insane. So I cannot
wait to see Godzilla. What is only rumored now to
be King Ghidorah, who in the history of Godzilla is
his big arch nemesis. He is a golden dragon monster
with three heads that you hear a little sound effect
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in there before he drops. That is the indication that
it's going to be this character. But the thing that
stuck out to me so much about the first one
is how great Godzilla looked, especially in all the water scenes.
The one where it's just Godzilla's head poking out from
the water, chasing that small little boat that they're on.
I can only imagine how good a three-headed, just giant
golden dragon monster is going to look in comparison. Also,
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initially we were teased that Godzilla will be coming to
New York City. There's a fantastic poster of Godzilla walking
behind the Statue of Liberty. So bring us over Godzilla
into the Big Apple. I cannot wait to see those scenes.
Godzilla Minus One is also making franchise history as being
the first Godzilla movie to ever receive an R rating
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in the United States. They list it as some violent
content and bloody images in its rating. So it's a
step up from the PG-13 version that we got in
Godzilla Minus One. Most importantly, you also have the same director, writer,
and person overseeing the visual effects. So it's going to
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match the quality of Godzilla Minus One. When talking about
the title, the first one is called Godzilla Minus Zero.
It's because this movie takes place in 1945. So you
are looking at a post-World War II Japan. They are
in turmoil. Japan has literally hit rock bottom, and then
they get dragged into something even worse, having to deal
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with Godzilla. So they are already super vulnerable and just
completely out of resources and energy to fight something. Then
they have to take on Godzilla. So it is Godzilla.
They are minus one. They are less than an actual percent.
So then here in the sequel, they are building up again.
They think their biggest threat is now gone. They are
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on their journey to recovery. and trying to get back
to that baseline of zero after normal life so in
a way the numbers are kind of going in reverse
order so they're just trying to get back to just
baseline not even like plus one or plus two just
zero they just want to be at zero You also
have a lot of the original cast coming back in
this movie where it almost looks like they filmed these
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movies back to back because they look exactly the same,
kind of the same settings, but just the special effects
have a little bit of a facelift. It's not reported
how much the budget grew between the first one and
the second one. Probably if I had to assume they
got at least double the budget. So maybe they're working
with 20 to 25 million here. But I really like
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the way it looks of having all those same characters back.
And seeing how devastated they are to see Godzilla returning.
Because they went through hell in the first movie. They
fought so hard to outsmart Godzilla. And I have to
imagine Godzilla is going to be even more difficult to
take down in this film. Because then you won't actually
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be dealing just with Godzilla. You'll also have his arch
nemesis in play as well. That is the other thing
I love about Godzilla. Is most of the times he's
a bad guy. He is the one destroying cities that
they're all trying to defeat. But then sometimes you kind
of root for him. And I know they do that
a little bit more in the American version where you
root for Godzilla to take down the other monster. So
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I have to imagine that I'm going to find myself
feeling a little sympathetic towards the monster here. And I
always kind of have that issue of rooting for the
bad guys in movies just because I'm like, man, I
want to see the most destruction possible. Let's root for
the bad guy. So sometimes I'm empathetic towards the person
causing the most destruction just because I think that makes
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for a more entertaining movie. In the real world, I'm
not going to be doing that. But in a movie,
I love to see chaos. I love to see a
big monster ripping apart cities like they are nothing, like
he's just blowing his nose in a tissue and throwing
it in the trash can. But in this case, I
feel like Godzilla is going to emerge as the hero
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at some point. Or maybe they find a way to
kill two birds with one stone. But I think at
some point, we are going to be rooting for that
big giant lizard. So if you've not seen Godzilla Minus One,
it is available on Netflix. And if you are somebody
who is hesitant of watching movies with subtitles, I actually
think this is a really good place to start. But
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what I would encourage you to do, and I know
some people it makes you a little bit uncomfortable, but
watch it. with only English subtitles because I think you
get the emotion of this movie so much more. And
whenever I go see these movies in theaters, I'm kind
of forced to do it that way because when you
go see it in theaters, they play international films in
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the language which they were filmed in and you get
English subtitles. At home, you have the ability to change it,
but I always feel like the emotion is lost in translation.
And I've tried this myself because I do speak Spanish
and sometimes I'll watch a movie not even a full movie,
but I'll watch a scene. I'll start out and just
see what they translate things into from Spanish to English.
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And it doesn't hit the same way. They change things
that can change the impact of a scene and the
message of a scene because of how they determine to
interpret some of those scenes and the languages. And some
things just cannot be translated. But when you watch it
in its native language, you feel the emotion more. You
get the performances of those actors, even though You don't
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know what they are saying. You can feel it more,
especially with Godzilla Minus One, which actually has a lot
of emotional depth, which you don't really think about. It
is a story of redemption. It is a story of
PTSD and wanting to do the right thing when maybe
you haven't done the right thing in the past. It
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also is a story about family and starting brand new.
So you have all those things inside of a movie
about Godzilla. So I would encourage you to hop over
to Netflix if you haven't watched it. I do rate
it a five out of five. I know probably an
overrated movie now at this point for a lot of people.
You're going to think, man, in no way is this
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movie a five out of five. I had nothing to
base it on. There was no hype around this movie.
Nobody else told me about this movie and ended up
leaving feeling like I'd just been transformed. There are these
movies that I feel set this ripple off in my
brain and That changed me forever. And that is what
Godzilla Minus One did for me. And that is why
I'm so excited to see a sequel this year and
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be able to see it in IMAX, where if you
go watch this trailer on YouTube, I think they do
a really good job of showing you the difference that
IMAX makes. Because when you're watching a YouTube video, especially
when it comes to trailers, you see the wide shot
and you see the black on top and the black
on bottom. That is normally how you watch a movie
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in theaters. But there is a moment towards the end
of the trailer where it just opens up from top
to bottom. So it takes your plane of view of
just being this horizontal sliver to suddenly being this shot
that takes up all of your screen. So it's kind
of hard to explain when you just see a picture
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of it. But if you see it in motion, go
from one aspect ratio to another aspect, you can see
the difference of going to watch this movie in IMAX
and how much more information you get, how much more
of a scope of the landscape that you get. So
if you've ever said to yourself, why do people go
on and on about IMAX? I can't tell the difference.
If you go watch this trailer and see that moment
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where they pull the screen, you can see how much
more you are getting when you actually go watch it
in IMAX. But not only that, the sound is also enhanced,
which The Godzilla sound effects, the charging up sound, the
score in this movie adds an entirely different level to
really make you feel like you're being chased by Godzilla.
So that is why I'm so excited about this. That
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is why I'm hyped on Godzilla Minus Zero. Not too
far away, so I got to go get my tickets.
It's coming out on November 6th. And that was this
week's edition of Movie Mike's Trailer Park. And that is
going to do it for another episode here of the podcast.
But before I go, I got to give my listener
shout out of the week. This week, I'm going over
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to Twitter, which Twitter kind of feel, I guess it's
called X, but Twitter kind of feels like there was
a mall I loved going to growing up. It was
called Redbird Mall that was in Dallas. And my family
did not have any money to go to the mall
and just go shopping every weekend. But we would go
just as mere entertainment of walking around the mall, going
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into Electronics Boutique, which, I don't know, it might have
been a regional thing, but it was essentially a GameStop
of the late 90s, early 2000s, going to Sam Goody,
which does no longer exist. It was a music store
where you could go hit a button on a screen
and listen to clips of hit songs on a pair
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of headphones that a bunch of people just shared and
used all the time. We would just walk around the
mall and I was just so like, wow, this is
the mall. This is where everything happens. And that was
a great memory for me. So much so that even
now as an adult, doing a mall lab is still
fun and exciting to me. I don't have to buy
a single thing. I just love going to the mall.
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But there was a moment when Redbird Mall was no
longer cool, where all the stores just started shutting down.
I think they changed the name of it. And it
became kind of this graveyard of what used to be.
A place that time just kind of forgot where you
saw all these stores. They used to be so filled
with people and products on the shelves and making a
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bunch of money. One by one, they would all just
go down. And in its place would go a t-shirt
shop that sold airbrush t-shirts with your name on it.
You had like a massage station. You had the food
court closed. Whenever the food court closes, you know that's bad.
And then you have just like random tattoo shops opening up.
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And then every other spot is probably like a vape store.
The Sears closed. All these things started shutting down. And
it just didn't feel like people went there to shop
anymore because the mall was dead. Long story short, that
is what Twitter feels like now where... It is a
place that used to be filled with all this content.
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Celebrities used to post on there all the time. You
could go and get all your news. And now it
just kind of feels like it's that one vape shop
just keeping the entire building alive. So I rarely go
over to X, but I will go over to X
for this week's listener shout out of the week. That
goes to John G, who said the badass Mike DiStro
had the incredible superstar Taylor Swift on his movie podcast.
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I am so proud of Mike on how awesome he
did interviewing a superstar. His confidence is 100. Check out
the episode wherever you get your podcasts. And John even
posted the link to the episode. This will be the
last shout out I do on that experiment we did
here a couple of weeks ago, which I think went okay. Again,
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I wasn't trying to scam anybody. I think the unfortunate
result that I got were the people who are kind
of close to me, but don't listen to the radio
show or don't listen to this podcast. They legit thought
I had Taylor Swift on here and were texting me like, congrats,
this is super exciting. And I had to be like,
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it's kind of a bit. I didn't mean to deceive you,
but appreciate that, John. Thank you, everybody else who has
played along and continue to comment on that Instagram. post
as well. Because now that this week I had a
legit interview in person, nobody's going to believe me. But
that's showbiz, right? So thank you for being here. Thank
you for being subscribed. And until next time, go out
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and watch good movies and I will talk to you later.
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